On my other computer screen, I'm rolling live footage of the Ingrid Betancourt press conference from some airport tarmac in Columbia.

It's a cool story, all on its own: 15 Hostages dragged around the jungle for six years, broken out -- all alive -- in a single operation by the Columbian military.

But, damn! Those Columbians know how to throw a press conference. The news is barely out there when all the hostages roll up on the tarmac, step out of the plane one by one, and follow the military commanders at the microphone. (The three Americans were not among them -- evidently they're already on the way back to the states.)

Ingrid Betancourt has been talking for 10 minutes now and they left it to her to tell the blow-by-blow story of how the operation actually unfolded. And that woman knows how to stage a performance.

Brilliant! One of the most gripping live news events I think I've seen.